Morano’s “entire job,” Gristmill’s David Roberts explains, “is to aggregate every misleading factoid, every attack on climate science or scientists, every crank skeptical statement from anyone in the world and send it all out periodically in email blasts” to the right-wing echo chamber.

The Wonk Room has acquired Morano’s email list, and we can now reveal the pack of climate skeptics, conservative bloggers, and corporate hacks who feed the misinformation machine. Promoted on the Drudge Report and Fox News, Morano’s moronic misinformation enters mainstream discourse through columns by Barnes, George Will, Robert Samuelson, and others. Many in the Morano gang are funded by right-wing think tanks, though a few are committed activists, conspiracy theorists who believe their homebrew interpretations of climate data. Others are aging scientists with strong conservative beliefs, motivating them to challenge action on global warming not because they disbelieve its existence, but because they are ideologically opposed to regulation of pollution:

Marc Morano’s Pack Of Climate Denial Jokers

Marc Morano, Sen. James Inhofe (R-OK), Committee on the Environment and Public Works

— The Scientists: Ph.D.s, often with strong industry ties, who may or may not have experience in climate science, but are ready to denounce the scientific consensus

— The Bloggers: They flood the Web with “news” and opinion, ready to be picked up by Drudge, Fox News, and the rest of the right-wing echo chamber

— The “Think Tankers”: Ready spokesmen associated with impressive-sounding organizations, often founded by themselves

— The Weathermen: Meteorologists, statisticians, and corporate scientists not associated with a think tank or university, but happy to give reporters their “expert” opinion

Update 1: Newsbusters’ Noel Sheppard responds, “I’m sure I speak for all my fellow jokers when I say that I am honored to be mentioned with these highly-respected climate realists.”

Update 2: DeSmogBlog is “working to research the individuals on Morano’s list” and compiling this handy referral guide; we’re linking the names to their backgrounders as they’re added.

Update 3: George E. Smith (gsmith@avagotech.com) writes in to inform the Wonk Room that he is not the George E. Smith formerly of Bell Labs who invented the charged coupled device. In fact, this Smith is a different inventor with “no discernible experience in climate or earth sciences.” He writes: “I think you owe George E. Smith, Bell Labs (ret) an apology.” The Wonk Room agrees, and apologizes for sullying that George E. Smith’s reputation.

Ultimately the bloggers and think-tankers can be dismissed as they have no qualifications in the science of climate change. The weatherman are quasi-scientific, but can be dismissed because they, too, do not have the appropriate training (I use the comparison of a pharmacist is in the field of medicine, but that doesn’t qualify him to perform surgery). Finally, each of these scientists must be researched to determine: 1. What is their actual field of study? 2. What research have they conducted? 3. What have they peer reviewed? When I have done that for bona fide climate scientists I typically find that at best, they are expressing an opinion but not basing it on any research they or anyone else has done.

Why doesn’t this list include Will Happer, physics professor at Princeton? It’s gotta be in Morano’s listed favorites….

In an interview last month with the Daily Princetonian (link below), Happer said that carbon dioxide does not cause climate change. “This is George Orwell. This is the ‘Germans are the master race. The Jews are the scum of the Earth.’ It’s that kind of propaganda,” he told the campus paper. “Carbon dioxide is not a pollutant. Every time you exhale, you exhale air that has 4 percent carbon dioxide. To say that’s a pollutant just boggles my mind. What used to be science has turned into a cult.”

Happer is chair of the board of the George C. Marshall Institute that spends nearly a third of its budget on climate change (on the contrarian side of the issue) and has received three quarters of a million dollars from Exxon.

Thanks to Inhofe and Morano for providing the entertainment portion of the upcoming Feb 25 Senate EPW Committee hearing on the state of the science in climate disruption. Happer will “testify” alongside Rajendra Pachauri, chairman of the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change; Christopher Field, director of the global ecology department, Carnegie Institution for Science, Stanford University; and Howard Frumkin, director of the National Center for Environmental Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Looks like a who’s who of top climate scientists to me. Roy Spencer, Fred Singer, Willie Soon, Richard Lindzen. I wonder if the folks criticizing the “deniers” ever finished freshman physics. We must remember, the moron who started all the AGW hype, Al Gore, made near failing grades in every math and science class he ever took.